This sad story has it all – women in combat, unchecked migration, and a rule of law as squishy as the average GOP spine.

Hernandez said it seemed cruel for ICE to inflict additional pain on the man and his daughter, noting the trauma they experienced after the death of his spouse.

“There are plenty of people you can go after but not a guy whose wife died in Afghanistan,” he said.

Vieyra was mortally wounded when insurgents attacked her unit using an improvised explosive device and rocket-propelled grenade fire in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, the Pentagon said at the time. Her unit had been sent to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director at the ACLU, said she could not recall a similar deportation. She said the deportation was unnecessary.

“It’s the height of cruelty for ICE to deport the father of a child whose mother died while serving in the U.S. army in Afghanistan,” Wang said. “The government can exercise its discretion not to pursue deportation against the sole remaining parent of a U.S. citizen child under these circumstances.”

I’m sure they would have shown one of us the same courtesy for, say, back taxes or inadvertently possessed bump stock.

We have no equal protection nor application. We have no law nor government. We have no common sense. We have no nation.